Data Journalist, BBC Verify
Birmingham, UK
GBP 28k-38k / year
JOB DETAILS
JOB BAND: C
CONTRACT TYPE: Fixed Term - Full Time (September 2026 - February 2027)
DEPARTMENT: BBC News
LOCATION: The Mailbox, Birmingham, B1 1AY
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £28,000 - £38,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
The role is based in Birmingham and we adopt a hybrid working pattern including regular office days.
Interviews for this role will be held remotely on 12 August 2026.
PURPOSE OF ROLE
As one of BBC Verify’s specialist data journalists, you will be a self-starter, full of ideas on how to find and tell stories using data. Your work will range from quick-turnaround data visualisation of new data and statistics to collaborations on original stories with specialist teams from across BBC News and longer-term exclusive investigations.
You will be able to delve beneath headline figures then confidently and succinctly explain the fuller picture to our audiences as well as colleagues from BBC News.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
BBC Verify is made up of investigative journalists who use enhanced editorial tools, technology and techniques to investigate, source and verify information, video and images to “show what we know”.
The data journalism team, based in Birmingham and London, focusses on telling stories with numbers: national and international projects in collaboration with story teams across BBC News.
Recent examples of our work include:
- Russia seizing thousands of homes in occupied Mariupol
- How Britain's political map has been torn up
- Track UK's latest migration numbers - net migration, visas, asylum and small boats
YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:
• Contribute to award-winning data journalism projects across BBC platforms.
• Develop content for digital, social media, TV, and radio audiences.
• Collaborate with journalists, correspondents, designers, and engineers to create engaging multi-platform storytelling experiences.
• Produce data-driven interactives and visualisations.
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:
• Experience in a dedicated data journalist role
• An understanding of statistics and statistical analysis
• Ability to clean, parse and query data using R and Excel
• Demonstrable experience of originating story ideas using data
• Demonstrable experience of visualising data, including using tools such as Flourish / Datawrapper
If you can bring some of these skills and experiences, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.
Disclaimer
This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.
Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.
Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Recruitment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.
For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk
We are unable to accept applications via CV and only applications made online will be considered. Please click on the APPLY NOW button to proceed with your application.
Redeployment
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.
This is your BBC
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Life at BBC
Here you will benefit from:
• Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
• Excellent career and professional development.
• Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
• A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.
Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis or on an orchestra conditions contract.
Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.
You belong
We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.
We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.
We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.
Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.
Disability confident
We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we’d be happy to discuss: reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk
